MONTREAL — Taxation of Internet purchases and disposal of a cottage were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here’s what they wanted to know. Q: “I notice when I purchase items on the Internet that sometimes I get charged sales tax and sometimes I don’t. Why is that?”

After a couple of sub-par months, the Gazette portfolio returned to form in August, surging 3.8 per cent. “It was a strong month for equity markets in general. No sectors had negative returns,” noted the portfolio’s longtime manager, Christine Décarie of Investors Group.

Stingrays are normally placid creatures. Not this one. It strikes often. Twenty-one times since 2007, Stingray Digital has snapped up companies in its area of expertise, the supply of music to cable-TV and pay-TV operators around the world.

Unused capital losses and the tax implications of living elsewhere were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here’s what they wanted to know. Q: My father passed away in 2013 and willed everything to his spouse. All the investments were rolled over to her and there were no dispositions. He had no capital gains that year, but $8,000 of losses carried forward from previous years. Is there any way to use those losses?

Other than his last name, nothing about Christian Groh remotely hints he might be in the marijuana business. He’s got close-cropped hair and wears the requisite shirt, tie and dark suit of the financial-services industry, where he used to ply his trade.

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